324 SEX GUIDANCE IN FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION

subjects offered in various departments, but with
few exceptions there are no organized correlated
courses of studies in our graduate schools, focussed
to meet the requirements of sex education work
and leading toward an advanced degree. There
are a few, I believe, and some good work is being
done, but in general, the country over, sex educa-
tion does not have a representation in educational
schools and colleges, and many faculties would not
feel themselves qualified to direct such study.

Because topics related to the sexual life for so
long have been segregated from other departments
of education and only recently are beginning to
slip quietly into the general curriculum of the
public schools, many are concerned lest special
courses in teacher training may divorce our edu-
cational interests, focus them again on sexual sub-
jects as such, and so thrust them back into the old
segregated position. One does not need to acquire
a subject or impart it to others in its final form in
order to have it accepted as a part of a whole great
body of knowledge, or as part of a whole great ex-
perience, but one does need to assimilate that sub-
ject, make it bone of one's bone and flesh of one's
flesh, if it is to be that to others and not a mere
external acquisition.

This accomplishment of personal adjustment to